When it comes to hardware requirements for the execution environment of a particular software, the focus of the issue is on the technical or QUALITY requirements, as processing power, volume and transaction DATA, number of users, security, etc… The functional requirements do not affect anything in this regard. Therefore, there is no direct relationship between the size of a software in function points (whether it’s adjusted or not) with the necessary hardware REQUIRED for its implementation.

But the adjustment factor, analyzed by itself from the functional size, includes many general system features (Distributed Processing, Performance, Heavily Used Configuration, Volume Transaction) that could assist in the DEFINITION of the hardware requirements of a software, but it would be an insufficient analysis to define the hardware.

When it comes to hardware requirements for the execution environment of a particular software, the focus of the issue is on the technical or quality requirements, as processing power, volume and transaction data, number of users, security, etc… The functional requirements do not affect anything in this regard. Therefore, there is no direct relationship between the size of a software in function points (whether it’s adjusted or not) with the necessary hardware required for its implementation.

But the adjustment factor, analyzed by itself from the functional size, includes many general system features (Distributed Processing, Performance, Heavily Used Configuration, Volume Transaction) that could assist in the definition of the hardware requirements of a software, but it would be an insufficient analysis to define the hardware.